Click Here to Print a Maker Movement Supply Chain: How Invention and Entrepreneurship Will Disrupt Supply Chain Design

Emerging technologies such as 3D printing promise to transform supply chain design and management. As these new technologies enable inventors to become entrepreneurs, new product introduction cycle times are being reduced and the variety of new products that are introduced through short channels of distribution is increasing. We show that these disruptive forces are growing and may have significant implications for practice, research, and teaching in supply chain management. We identify and elaborate important research questions, calling for theory‐driven research to explain and predict how these phenomena will impact supply chain management.     

供应链的知识创新战略设计

本文从知识的内在规定性和供应链的特定构造出发,分析了供应链知识创新管理的特征,在此基础上,提出了供应链知识创新管理在供应链层次的战略,并根据系统中不同企业成员市场地位、产品知识特性的不同提出了企业层次的战略。     

物流企业推行供应链管理模式的对策研究

供应链管理是增强企业竞争力最主要的管理方法之一,在顾客期望提高及产品寿命期缩短的压力下,企业只有全面整合供应链的资源才能生存下去。要排除市场环境标准化及信誉障碍,从战略角度选择合作伙伴,采用先进的管理方式进行运作,引导社会物流供应链系统向高度化方向发展。     

基于供应链战略联盟的供应商管理

近几年来,随着供应链管理的不断发展,采购供应管理成为企业实现柔性化经营、有效应对市场的重要手段,在这一发展背景下,供应商作为供应链战略的重要参与者如何有效地加以管理,从而确立起及时、动态地与下游企业有效沟通的机制,真正实现供应链管理绩效,已成为当今供应链管理的重要课题。本文从理论和实证的角度分析了供应链战略联盟背景下,供应商的评价维度、细分管理的原则以及相应的规制形式,从而使企业真正确立起行之有效的战略供应链体系。     

连锁零售业供应链的研究及其在我国的应用

供应链及其管理是当代经济发展中的热点问题。21世纪的市场竞争将会超越企业与企业、产品与产品之间的竞争,取而代之的是供应链与供应链的竞争。随着我国加入WTO过渡期的结束,零售业正面临着残酷的竞争和考验,如果我国零售企业想要在市场上保持竞争优势并提高核心竞争力,就应当不断地探索提升零售业供应链管理水平的途径。     

基于多Agent的协同供应链模型

供应链通过获取原材料,转换成最终产品,交付最终用户等一系列过程将供应商、制造商、仓储、分销中心以及零售商等形成一个巨大的网络体系。当前,随着企业经营模式的变化,协同与伙伴管理成为供应链变革的推动力量。而协同供应链能够对市场变化和用户需求形成快速响应。将Agent理论应用于协同供应链管理,分析协同供应链的主要特征,并提出基于多Agent的协同供应链模型。     

国外旅游供应链研究综述

国外对旅游供应链的研究在近几年获得了较快的发展,在旅游供应链内涵方面虽有分歧,但也达成了一定的共识,普遍认为旅游供应链比制造业供应链更为复杂,是一个网络结构而非链条结构,其主体涉及公共部门和私营企业。在旅游供应链主体合作形式、旅游需求预测、旅游供应链主体提升、旅游供应链绩效考核等方面也取得了较多的研究成果,而且随着经济环境的变化,国外旅游供应链研究已经考虑了经济全球化、信息技术发展、可持续发展等方面的影响。未来研究应该加强对旅游产品和服务的合作开发、供给管理、库存管理以及绩效考核等方面的关注,同时将诸如博弈论、交易成本理论等相关的理论和方法应用于旅游供应链的研究领域。     

Blockchain Applications in Supply Chain Transactions

Blockchains, a disruptive technology with potentially many applications in modern‐day supply chain (SC) transactions, have not been adequately reflected by theory. Researchers and business managers must understand where and when blockchains’ application may be expected and investigated. The present study clarifies the discussion about blockchain application areas (BAAs) in SC transactions and their relevance for businesses. This study combines the findings from three methodological approaches: an extant literature review, a Delphi study, and a survey of 151 German machinery and equipment sector business managers. The results further our understanding of blockchains’ business opportunities among SC transactions and verify and extend Iansiti and Lakhani’s (Harvard Business Review 2017; 95: 118) blockchain adoption framework. Verified customer reviews and product quality certification are identified as the most relevant blockchain usages in SC transactions. Interestingly, we anticipate the least likely adoption of blockchains to occur for document‐signing processes despite arguments within the literature that suggest otherwise. Two newly identified BAAs—logistics and delivery systems—and token‐curated registries rank among the top four most relevant. The present study’s valuation of BAAs advances theory and will likely affect business strategies by indicating where, when, and why businesses should participate in blockchain networks.     

How Environmental Management Competitive Pressure Affects a Focal Firm's Environmental Innovation Activities: A Green Supply Chain Perspective

Recently, environmental management offers firms a source of competitive advantage in the marketplace. The development of environmental innovations is critical to the success of today's firms. Drawing on the Schumpeterian perspective of competition, this research examines how the perception of rival firms' green success influences a firm to pursue and produce environmental innovation through its green supply chain integration activities. Using survey data from 230 firms, a conceptual model is developed and tested using structural equation modeling. We find that the firms in our sample do perceive pressure from their competitors' success in environmental management activities, and thus take supply chain action to pursue integration activities. By differentiating incremental and radical environmental innovation, this study also reveals the role of three dimensions of green supply chain integration (internal, supplier, and customer integration of green product development) on incremental and radical environmental innovation separately. Specifically, findings suggest that green supply chain integration has a positive impact on developing incremental environmental innovation, while only customer integration has a significant positive impact on developing radical environmental innovation.     

中国超市经营生鲜农产品和供应链管理的思考

消费水平的提高必然导致消费方式的改变，超市的出现必然导致生鲜农产品流通业态的改变，最终必然导致供应链管理方式变革。本文从超市生鲜农产品供应链管理要素入手，在通过对我国超市生鲜农产品供应链管理现状的描述与分析后指出：超市生鲜农产品供应链的管理不能仅依据一般的现代物流管理思想与实践，而要考虑产品特性、技术支持、营销与竞争、组织成熟度、公共政策诸因素。     

用CAS理论分析供应链管理系统

供应链组织的核心纽带不是资金,而是以管理、技术、市场、信息和理念等企业无形资产为核心而结成的一个虚拟性组织,供应链的形成过程是各个企业成员在以上述核心纽带为基础优势组合时按照“适者生存”原则所进行的自然选择的结果,最终达成了一条企业认为的“最佳”组合(即系统),是目前乃至将来的经济组织发展的主流。因此,如何使供应链系统更加有效的运行,以及研究供应链管理复杂系统的性质、内部模式和规律将是21世纪最具有竞争力、最具有前途的研究领域之一。     

供应链柔性决策机制的建立

在对供应链的决策机制的研究过程中,大部分都是源于传统的决策理论方法。在传统的决策理论研究领域一般分为两个阵营,一个是基于理性决策研究,另一个是基于行为规则的决策理论研究。对于前者大部研究者在假设决策者是理性的前提下给予了研究,在这个领域里往往会运用博弈论的知识对决策行为给予剖析。但是由于市场环境的复杂多变,使得理性决策有时在一定的条件下存在着极大的局限性。尤其是特定的供应链网络系统内,在面对多个决策主体在空间与时间上的非同步性时,如何对决策者之间的关系进行协调以及时地应对外界环境的变化,从而使供应链整体效益最优,是研究的主要目的。基于规则决策的观点,用群决策支持系统原理(GDSS)为供应链网络设立一种更为柔性化的决策机制。     

Managing the Innovation Adoption of Supply Chain Finance—Empirical Evidence From Six European Case Studies

Logistics’ contribution to corporate performance has increased over recent years, particularly due to supply chain innovations. Opposed to common innovations focusing on the improvement of product or information flow, supply chain finance (SCF) targets the financial flow and allows buying firms and their suppliers to improve working capital and reduce costs. However, the adoption process of SCF is complex and rather unexplored in academia. This article provides an early step in building knowledge about SCF and in particular how firms adopt SCF, why they adopt differently, and what role suppliers play in the adoption process. The objective was therefore to close the gap between our knowledge on product and information flow oriented innovations and financial flow innovations along the supply chain, namely SCF. For this explorative research, we opted for an inductive multiple case study approach with six European firms. Based on our findings, four sets of propositions are posited and an extended SCF adoption framework is proposed revolving around the interrelated adoption processes of buying firms and their corresponding supplier bases.     

Supply Chain Integrity: A Key to Sustainable Supply Chain Management

As stakeholders continue to increasingly hold firms accountable for environmental and social performance in their supply chains, the importance of understanding how firms can be more sustainable becomes more prescient. Based on the underlying premise of stakeholder theory that business and ethics decisions are intertwined, the current research introduces the concept of supply chain integrity (SCI) to explore how the interdependence of business and ethics decisions can lead to improvements in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices. Exploratory analysis employing secondary data sources in an elastic net (EN) logistic regression provides support for the proposed construct, by providing preliminary empirical evidence that SCI, measured through two subdimensions of structural and moral SCI, can be linked to firm sustainability. The research contributes to the supply chain management literature by: (1) introducing the concept of SCI; (2) performing an exploratory econometric analysis to provide initial validity of the SCI construct; and (3) providing a research agenda to guide further research on the concept of SCI and its role in SSCM.     

供应链管理实践、供应链敏捷性对企业绩效的影响研究

市场竞争逐渐由企业间的竞争转化为供应链间的竞争,供应链管理日益受到关注。文章采集163家企业信息进行实证分析,探索供应链管理实践和供应链敏捷性对企业绩效的影响与作用机制。研究结果表明：供应链管理实践对企业绩效具有直接正向影响,供应链管理实践对供应链敏捷性具有直接正向影响,供应链敏捷性对企业绩效具有直接正向影响且在供应链管理实践与企业绩效之间发挥部分中介作用。     

服务供应链的结构创新模式——一个案例研究

服务供应链管理是近年来国际供应链管理研究领域中一个较为新型的课题。本文以陕西鼓风机有限公司（陕鼓）为研究对象,运用案例研究的方法,探索服务供应链的结构模式与创新特点。通过对比制造供应链和服务供应链的不同点,提出服务供应链的整体结构包括网络结构、业务流程和管理成份三部分。在此理论基础上结合案例研究,总结出服务集成商成功的关键要素,即高层次的信誉资产和能力、寻求整合机会和综合效益、建立良好的社会资本、控制和结合产品供应链以及重视融资和资金管理。由此,充分验证了服务供应链这一创新模式,并进一步指导了服务集成商的运作与管理。     

供应链环境下企业质量文化的变革及对策探讨

对于企业的质量改进,不仅需要方法和技术的支持,更需要企业质量文化的支持,缺乏文化支持的质量管理活动注定是失败的。特别是随着经济全球化及市场竞争的加剧,供应链经营模式被越来越多的企业采用,企业质量管理的范围和模式发生了较大变化,企业质量文化的滞后性已阻碍了供应链节点企业的经营和质量改进活动,因此急需对其进行变革。     

A Review of Sustainable Supply Chain Management Practices in Canada

There is a growing body of research on the theory and practice of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). However, relatively little research has been conducted on the extent to which corporations have integrated sustainability principles into the management of their supply chain and the evaluation of supplier performance. The purpose of this article is to explore the extent to which corporate sustainability principles are integrated into supply chain management (SCM) in corporations. Canada is used as a case study in this article. The study included a content analysis of one hundred Canadian corporate sustainable development reports and in-depth interviews with 18 Canadian experts on SSCM. The article highlights the wide array of ways in which Canadian corporations address SSCM issues. Amongst other topics, issues associated with supply chain governance, standards for SSCM, collaboration with suppliers, performance measurement, and accountability within the supply chain are explored. The findings reveal that there are many challenges in integrating sustainability into SCM. These challenges shed light on possible future directions for research in SSCM. This article underlines the need for research that reflects the interconnected nature of the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of sustainability, particularly as it relates to measuring supplier performance on sustainability initiatives.     

我国生鲜农产品供应链管理思考

本文认为,在小生产与大市场矛盾的制约下,目前我国生鲜农产品的流通体制是以批发市场为核心的,这是一条效率低的断裂链或局部的短链,不利于实现农产品在流通环节的增值。文章提出,解决这一问题最有效的办法是培育核心企业以替代目前批发市场,核心企业可以是大型商贸企业、第三方物流企业或生鲜农产品的加工企业。基于核心企业的生鲜农产品供应链管理在运用电子商务技术整合优化生鲜农产品供应链方面有明显的优势,能以最小的成本为顾客提供最大的价值,并能获得共赢的效果。     

考虑存在平行进口的跨国供应链价格竞争研究

跨境电商以及配套物流网络的快速发展致使平行进口对部分行业产生了巨大影响。通过建立三种市场权力模式下跨国制造商与本地制造商的博弈模型,本文对比分析有无灰色市场的不同模式供应链参与者的定价及利润,探析平行进口对低支付意愿市场的跨国制造商与本地制造商之间寡头竞争的影响。研究发现:市场支付意愿比值低于某一阈值时不会出现平行进口,市场权力模式和灰色市场的存在能影响跨国供应链参与者的收益多寡及定价策略;灰色市场有益于本地制造商和平行进口商,市场处于单一制造商主导模式有助于减少跨国制造商损失、增加本地制造商收益及缩减平行进口商的利润,在制造商共同主导模式下存在一个市场支付意愿比值区间,致使跨国制造商收益增加;平行进口促进还是抑制寡头供应链的价格竞争,取决于市场权力的结构形式。